Agreed with every word.

On a national level we're reaping the tainted harvest wrought by years of cultivating an uneducated populace.

They make for great desperate-workers, emotionally swayed voters, readily-motivated armed forces, and well-trained consumers, but making higher education an increasingly lofty privilege while also undermining it at every turn for politics is totally coming back to bite us.

Instead of being seen as the wealth of our nation, people are seen as another commodity product for corporations to buy and sell. (Readily evident at the defunding and disrespect towards arts and social sciences.)

Now when there's a "shortage" of educated workers, they just import them from wherever's cheapest.

...And tons of our college funding still goes to the football teams. To entertain and profit off the uneducated masses.

Well that's about the system in the USA or some third world countries.

And boy, are we feeling it. Infrastructure crumbling. Crime, unemployment, homelessness on the rise. Everybody is stupid. But check out our new super-carrier! /s

Man I wish I had some positive note to end this with but I'm just frustrated, and a lot of me wishes to just escape. Lol.